Structural Iron and Steel Workers

It's like I wanna, I want to appeal to my union people.

I wish, like, Local 392, the Ironworkers in Washington Park, if- We- they used to get outages in all these factories-

Mm

... all these mills.

Union shop, of course.

Ironworkers Local 886.

Yeah, I...

That'd be a good place for her to visit.

But who knows? More to come on this story.

I wanna take a quick moment here to do a shout-out here to the Ironworkers, especially the publication Impact.

And I love that name, Impact.

It speaks volumes.

And this is a service of the labor management trust of the Ironworkers Union and the signatory contractors involved.

It's so important that they have a good relationship, and boy, I, I tell you, they really do.

And they posted this week on their, uh, newsletter an episode of America's Workforce going back to September 17th.

We were talking about the prevalence of suicide in the construction industry, and our featured guest that day was Shayna Clawson, who's the national training director for the QPR Institute, and she joined us to talk about what QPR is doing for the Ironworkers program and the partnership they have.

Then after I come from that island and moved to this island, I started working at the lacrosse factory on the island for quite a few years.

And after, you know, working on the island for a few years, uh, at the factory, I saved money and bought myself a, a book, Ironworker.

So I went to work at a very young age.

I started off in Boston doing ironworking.

Yeah.

And you have a lot of people, like in the SAG-AFTRA, in the WGA, Ironworkers of America, uh, a, a carpenter union.

Yeah.

A lot of people know what mergers mean usually.

Speaking of data centers, this week, a new multi-million dollar labor business coalition called the American Infrastructure Alliance launched, bringing together unions, AI companies, and private equity firms to push for data center development in seven states.

This group is backed by Blackstone, OpenAI, and SoftBank, and counts the IBEW, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, Transportation Workers, the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers, the International Association of Iron Workers, and the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters among the union partners.

Now, the coalition's goal is to work with state and local officials to establish standards and guardrails for responsible data center construction ahead of 2027 state legislative sessions and to oppose moratoriums on any new projects.

Now, the push comes as data centers have become a flashpoint in this year's midterms, with both Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro both reversing earlier pro-data center positions amid political backlash.

I don't even remember his superlative.

At least with Iron Worker Shane, I remember he's like, I'm the tallest guy in every room.

But with Wyatt, I'm like, I couldn't tell you a single thing about him.

He's invisible.

a big fan of Clyde.

I like Shane.

I wish they showed more Iron Worker Shane.

He seems cool.

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Hey, man, no better man to...

I, I'll take a backseat.

No better man to tell you about the Iron Workers than my old man right here.

the people who produce the wealth have enormous potential power but only if they act together so workers have power the question is whether they can organize it and that's the fight we're watching eternally workers are organizing the bosses usually know it and judging by how hard they fight back they know exactly why And I want to highlight another documentary in light of the 25th anniversary of 9-11.

The documentary is called Medal of Honor, M-E-T-A-L, The Iron Workers of 9-11.

You can read it on YouTube for about $2.99 or so.

Highly, highly recommended.